Foreign Legionnaires: Art Collectives at Work - Curated by Kelly McCray

The Foreign Legionnaires exhibition associates the nomadic camaraderie and discipline of distant military forces to the creative activities of contemporary art collectives. Not unlike the impervious military world, the creative impulse is often perceived as foreign or untouchable in relation to day to day routines. Furthermore, art collectives are not formed to protect a country, fight a fire, participate in war fare or other such heroic deeds, but instead, give rise to a unified voice of unexpected creative concepts, erupting out of the blue through extraordinary powers of consolidation and negotiation. All for creative pursuits in the realm of art; the realm of serious play that is most foreign to day to day living.

The Foreign Legionnaires exhibition is an attempt to maneuver through the collective process in order to reveal layers of the collaborative process, taking into consideration the individual mark making that comprises the cohesive whole.

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